Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates

This is an administration category. It is used for administration of the Wikipedia project and is not part of the encyclopedia. It contains pages that are not articles, or it groups articles by status rather than content. Do not include this category in content categories. This is a hidden category. It is not shown on its member pages, unless the corresponding user preference is set.

Administrators: Please do not delete this category even if it is empty! This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time.

If this category has 20 items or more, it will report as a backlog. (recount)

These pages are automatically listed here, using the {{PROTECTIONLEVEL}} magic word, when their protection status does not correspond with the protection template used on them.

Often times, a page will not contain the invalid protection template directly, but rather will inherit it. This often happens when a template is semi-protected, but the protection template used for that template is not wrapped in <noinclude> tags. To fix this problem, simply move the protection template within the <noinclude> tags, as in this example. The pages that link to the template via transclusion will not be removed from this category immediately, depending on the job queue, but it should resolve itself automatically. (Alternatively, you can null edit the page for immediate results.)

Another common cause for pages to be in this category is improper date formats in the expiry parameter of the protection template. If a page has the correct template yet still appears in this category, it could be because the wrong date format was used for the expiry parameter of the protection template.